庄
farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,233 U+5E84
How 庄 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
广 (semantic, “house”) + 壯 (phonetic)
How to remember it
hamlet · Heisig RSH #562
cave + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 壯
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 壯 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 壯 sound component | — | big, large; robust, strong; the name of a tribe |
| 奘 | zàng | fat, stout, thick; powerful, stocky |
Words containing 庄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 石家庄市 | Shí jiā zhuāng Shì | Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 台儿庄区 | Tái ér zhuāng Qū | Tai'erzhuang, a district of Zaozhuang City 棗莊市|枣庄市[Zao3 zhuang1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 新庄市 | Xīn zhuāng shì | Xinzhuang or Hsinchuang city in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan |
| 地下钱庄 | dì xià qián zhuāng | underground bank; illegal private bank; loan shark |
| 罗庄区 | Luó zhuāng Qū | Luozhuang, a district of Linyi City 臨沂市|临沂市[Lin2 yi2 Shi4], Shandong |
| 石家庄 | Shí jiā zhuāng | see 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4] |
| 庄河市 | Zhuāng hé Shì | Zhuanghe, a county-level city in Dalian City 大連市|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 台儿庄 | Tái ér zhuāng | see 台兒莊區|台儿庄区[Tai2 er2 zhuang1 Qu1] |
| 康庄大道 | kāng zhuāng dà dào | broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects |
| 动物庄园 | Dòng wù Zhuāng yuán | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威… |
| 庄子 | Zhuāng zǐ | Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC), Daoist philosopher; the eponymous Daoist classic |
| 庄子 | zhuāng zi | (coll.) village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4] |
| 山庄 | shān zhuāng | manor house; villa; (used in hotel names) |
| 庄家 | zhuāng jiā | farmhouse; banker (gambling) |
| 环秀山庄 | Huán xiù Shān zhuāng | Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of S… |
| 新庄 | Xīn zhuāng | Xinzhuang or Hsinchuang city in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan |
| 老庄 | Lǎo Zhuāng | Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism |
| 庄老 | Zhuāng Lǎo | Zhuangzi and Laozi, the Daoist masters |
| 罗庄 | Luó zhuāng | see 羅莊區|罗庄区[Luo2 zhuang1 Qu1] |
| 庄重 | zhuāng zhòng | grave; solemn; dignified |